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have thought if Daniel bad protested . against the decree of Darius , and yet acted according to its tenor ? What should we have thought if the apostles Peter and John had protested against the injunction of the chief 1
priests and rulers , to preach no more in the name of Jesus , and yet obeyed it ? When I read the following words , [ Mon . Repos . XIV . 180 , ] "In the name of the Father , aud ( but protest ing against it ) of the Son , and ( but protesting against it ) of the HoJy Ghost / ' I pictured to myself an
unhappy being impelled by abject poverty on the highways : I saw him stop the passing traveller , and heard him say , "I demand your money , but 1 protest against the practice : I demand your watch , but I protest against the practice : I take away your life to secure my own , but 1 protest against the deed . " I saw him return to his
starving family , undisturbed by the qualms of conscience , perfectly satisfied in his own innocence ; having wiped away guilt as fast as he had contracted it , by the expedient , protest . And such , Sir , is its character , such its tendency . For were the
principle universally acted upon , it would overturn all morality , and deluge the world with crime and misery To protest and to conform , is to acknowledge a thing to be wrong , and yet , at the same time , to do it ; which is much worse than to do it from ignorance . * He who knew his
master ' s will , and did it not , shall be beaten with many stripes : but he who knew it not , and did things worthy of stripes , shall be beaten with few stripes . " As meo of
integrity , we cannot conform to the marriage ceremony as it now stands , and if we would preserve our consciences void of offence , either the objectionable parts must be omitted , or we must obtain leave to solemnize our own
marriages , or we must solemnize them without leave , or we must go to Scotland , or we must remain in a state of celibacy . F . K .
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S ir , Bridport , April 3 , 1819 * TH AT creatures endowed with reason , and formed by their benevolent Creator to promote each other ' s happiness , should , with the ferocity of wild beasts , engage in scenes of bloodshed and mutual de-
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struction , is conduct marked with as much folly as inhumanity . It mast needs be that offences will arise be * tween nations as well as individuals :
but an appeal to force * in order to decide them , in either one case or the other , cannot possibly demonstrate on which side justice lies . The injured party may fall a victim to . the superior strength or skill of the aggressor .
The nations of Europe profess Christianity , which , though by no means inimical to- any of the natural rights of man , is founded in universal love and benevolence , and inconsistent with the spirit of the horrid custom of war . The dreadful miseries which
have been hereby brought on Christendom , if we go no farther back in its history than the last thirty years , seem to have convinced most of the present potentates on the Continent , of the impolicy of war , and that it is as much their interest , as it is a point of
humanity and a principle of religion , to endeavour to prevent it for the future . Their afflictions appear to have softened their hearts , and generated and cherished the best feelings of benevolence and sympathy with
human woe , in their breasts . This I would charitably hope , is the real ground of the late Holy Alliance , * which , from its being so different from former treaties of powerful rnonarchs , naturally excited suspicion that there was more in it than meets
the eye , that it had some object in view besides its avowed design , some latent mystery of illiberality 9 \ which a few years would disclose . Nothing of this kind , however , has yet
appeared , and the subsequent language and conduct of the principal continental sovereign with whom this Alliance , on professedly Christian precepts , is said to have originated , tend
? Treaties somewhat similar in their object to tliis , were formed , the first in the eleventh century , called , the Truce of Gods the second in the succeeding" agT e ?
termed , the Brotherhood of God ; and the third , A . D . 1245 , which had the appellation of the Royal Truce- An interesting account is given of these associations in Robertson ^ Hist , of Charles V . pp . 336—3402 nd Ed . .
, , f " Whatever the ulterior object of « " * convention may be , certain it is , tkat-rt ' intended as a strong league , made i » »** name of God , Against liberal opiniP *® - Morn * Ckron , February 19 , 1816 *
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304 Marriage Protests . " ' — -Bjoly , Alliance *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/24/
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